Growing electronics segment eyes high-end products

Total output by China's electronic information sector - producing products ranging from smartphones, laptops to routers and LCD panels - increased by 10 percent year-on-year in 2016.

That was about 4 percentage points higher than the rate of overall industrial output, the China Information Technology Industry Federation said in a statement.

The performance compared with China's industrial output that increased by 6 percent last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.